Declan Rice out us in front in just the second minute before Kai Havertz headed in a brilliant Gabriel Martinelli cross midway through the second half to secure the points, and Martin Odegaard put gloss on the result by adding a third in stoppage-time.
We remain third in the 36-team league table with 16 points, meaning only a heavy defeat against Girona next week coupled with victories for six of the chasing pack would see us slip out of the top eight, as we aim to skip next month’s play-off round.
RAPID RICE
Dinamo went into this game with a new manager in Fabio Cannavaro and not having played a competitive game for a month due to the Croatian league’s winter break, we caught them cold after just 104 seconds by surgeing into a quickfire lead.
Martinelli attacked the left side and teed up Havertz in the area, who laid the ball off perfectly into the path of Rice who thundered a half-volley into the net to register his first Champions League goal, and our fastest in the competition for a decade.
